Quotes About Effort

Malcolm Gladwell

Hard work is a prison only if it does not have meaning

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

Those three things--autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward--are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether our work fulfills us.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good

The idea that excellence at performing a complex task requires a critical minimum level of practice surfaces again and again in studies of expertise. In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand

Malcolm Gladwell

Gosh darn it," Gau said, "if you don't try, you'll never succeed.

The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.

take control of the machinery of achievement, in other words—not just in sports but, as we

in examining the lives of the remarkable among us—the skilled, the talented, and the driven—I will argue that there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success.

Now let's do the same kind of analysis for people like

los que están en la misma cumbre no es que trabajen un poco o bastante más que todos los demás. Trabajan mucho, mucho más.

O sucesso é uma combinação de talento e preparação. O problema com essa forma de pensar é que, quanto mais a fundo os psicólogos analisam as carreiras dos talentosos, menor parece o papel desempenhado pelo talento e maior se mostra a importância da preparação.

lo que distingue a un intérprete virtuoso de otro mediocre es el esfuerzo que cada uno dedica a practicar. Y eso no es todo: los que están en la misma cumbre no es que trabajen un poco o bastante más que todos los demás. Trabajan mucho, mucho más. La

Malcolm Gladwell

Hardwork is aprison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

Malcolm Gladwell

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that

one harder than the one before it, and IQ is calculated based

Malcolm Gladwell

And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

El éxito es talento más preparación. El problema de este punto de vista es que, cuanto más miran los psicólogos las carreras de los mejor dotados, menor les parece el papel del talento innato; y mayor el que desempeña la preparación.

Sus investigaciones sugieren que una vez que un músico ha demostrado capacidad suficiente para ingresar en una academia superior de música, lo que distingue a un intérprete virtuoso de otro mediocre es el esfuerzo que cada uno dedica a practicar. Y eso no es todo: los que están en la misma cumbre no es que trabajen un poco o bastante más que todos los demás. Trabajan mucho, mucho más.